GraphQL Contracts

GraphQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GraphQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GraphQL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 340 277
Rank change year-on-year -17 -63 -52
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 253 400 866
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.72% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.77% 3.14% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 266 691
10th Percentile £325 £425 £425
25th Percentile £419 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +12.20%
75th Percentile £590 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.25% +24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £56.20 £38.00 -
25th Percentile £58.00 £42.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £60.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

GraphQL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,136 12,739 23,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,305 9,291 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 152 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -20 214 £507 -15.50% 97
London -10 130 £550 -12.70% 55
Work from Home +33 117 £500 -13.04% 57
UK excluding London +9 85 £450 -14.29% 40
South West +11 21 £524 +4.80% 4
Midlands +31 20 £350 -30.00% 11
North of England -4 17 £475 -13.64% 16
South East +9 15 £388 -30.49% 3
West Midlands +21 14 £350 -24.32% 5
North West +8 9 £475 -13.64% 8
Yorkshire -11 7 £505 -8.18% 5
East Midlands +13 6 £438 -20.45% 6
Wales - 5 £438 -
Scotland +36 4 £498 -9.13% 2
East of England -7 3 £650 +22.64% 3
North East +12 1 £650 - 3

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.11%) CMS
2 15 (5.93%) Headless CMS
3 8 (3.16%) Apache
4 7 (2.77%) Kentico
5 3 (1.19%) nginx
6 2 (0.79%) Confluence
6 2 (0.79%) WordPress
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (49.01%) AWS
2 63 (24.90%) Azure
3 26 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (8.70%) GCP
6 19 (7.51%) Serverless
7 16 (6.32%) GitHub
8 11 (4.35%) Azure API Management
9 9 (3.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 9 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (3.56%) npm
9 9 (3.56%) NuGet
10 8 (3.16%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.37%) Figma
11 6 (2.37%) SaaS
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.98%) Miro
13 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) HTTP
2 4 (1.58%) DNS
2 4 (1.58%) VPN
3 3 (1.19%) AMQP
4 2 (0.79%) FTP
4 2 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.74%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.77%) MySQL
7 7 (2.77%) Triplestore
8 6 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.40%) GIS
11 1 (0.40%) Jackrabbit
11 1 (0.40%) Redis
11 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 44 (17.39%) Git
2 22 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 12 (4.74%) GitLab
4 11 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.35%) Postman
5 8 (3.16%) JIRA
5 8 (3.16%) Visual Studio
6 7 (2.77%) NUnit
6 7 (2.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.37%) Selenium
8 5 (1.98%) Mocha
8 5 (1.98%) Storybook
8 5 (1.98%) webpack
9 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.58%) Gradle
9 4 (1.58%) Snyk
10 3 (1.19%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.79%) Maven
11 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (15.02%) Finance
2 36 (14.23%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.32%) Banking
4 14 (5.53%) Retail
5 9 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.37%) Front Office
6 6 (2.37%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.37%) Marketing
6 6 (2.37%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Electronics
8 3 (1.19%) German Language
8 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.79%) French Language
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 143 (56.52%) Developer
2 45 (17.79%) React Developer
3 42 (16.60%) Senior
4 38 (15.02%) Full Stack Developer
5 25 (9.88%) Architect
5 25 (9.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 22 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.32%) Lead
8 15 (5.93%) JavaScript Developer
8 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.35%) Angular Developer
9 11 (4.35%) E-Commerce Developer
9 11 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.56%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.56%) Azure Developer
11 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 7 (2.77%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (47.04%) React
2 71 (28.06%) REST
3 66 (26.09%) Node.js
4 51 (20.16%) Next.js
5 45 (17.79%) CSS
6 37 (14.62%) HTML
7 35 (13.83%) Redux
8 33 (13.04%) AngularJS
9 24 (9.49%) RESTful
10 22 (8.70%) .NET
11 21 (8.30%) Kafka
12 18 (7.11%) gRPC
13 17 (6.72%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.93%) Express.js
14 15 (5.93%) OAuth
15 14 (5.53%) Spring
16 13 (5.14%) SOAP
17 11 (4.35%) HTML5
17 11 (4.35%) JWT
17 11 (4.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.79%) Wiki
8 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.77%) Linux
2 6 (2.37%) Android
2 6 (2.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.67%) Full Stack Development
2 69 (27.27%) Agile
3 67 (26.48%) CI/CD
4 64 (25.30%) DevOps
5 51 (20.16%) Software Engineering
6 36 (14.23%) Microservices
7 32 (12.65%) TDD
8 31 (12.25%) Front End Development
8 31 (12.25%) Test Automation
9 25 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (9.88%) Scrum
10 21 (8.30%) E-Commerce
11 20 (7.91%) BDD
12 18 (7.11%) Containerisation
13 17 (6.72%) Event-Driven
14 16 (6.32%) Analytics
14 16 (6.32%) Data Modelling
15 14 (5.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 14 (5.53%) Fintech
15 14 (5.53%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 111 (43.87%) TypeScript
2 90 (35.57%) JavaScript
3 51 (20.16%) Java
4 49 (19.37%) SQL
5 46 (18.18%) Python
6 13 (5.14%) Kotlin
7 12 (4.74%) C#
8 11 (4.35%) Go
9 7 (2.77%) SPARQL
10 6 (2.37%) PHP
11 5 (1.98%) Bicep
11 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) DataFlex
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (8.30%) SC Cleared
1 21 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.56%) Degree
3 8 (3.16%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.37%) GDPR
2 6 (2.37%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.37%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (19.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (17.79%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.11%) Terraform
3 7 (2.77%) Grafana
3 7 (2.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.58%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Istio
6 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) rkt
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (3.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.77%) Google
3 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.37%) SAP
4 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (1.19%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe
5 2 (0.79%) Spotify
6 1 (0.40%) Ariba
6 1 (0.40%) Dell
6 1 (0.40%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.40%) Intel
6 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.40%) New Relic
6 1 (0.40%) Okta
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk